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VANCOUVER – The first thing to keep in mind is that the Canucks schedule might wind up being as abstract as a Schrodinger’s cat thought-experiment, given that it will be thrown out if there’s any significant delay to the …

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VANCOUVER – The first thing to keep in mind is that the Canucks schedule might wind up being as abstract as a Schrodinger’s cat thought-experiment, given that it will be thrown out if there’s any significant delay to the coming season because of a labour dispute.
But assuming the season will go ahead as scheduled, here are some of the more noteworthy elements:
– There’s no big splash as there was last season when the Canucks opened the season by hosting the Pittsburgh Penguins; this fall the Canucks open the 2012-13 campaign in Calgary;
– There are no six-game road trips and even the two five-gamers are relatively compact geographically;
– Boston visits for the first time since Game 7 last June, on Dec. 29;
– Philadelphia, which at one time was a traditional New Year’s Eve visitor, returns for the first time in a couple of years, on Jan. 6;
– Looking for a Canucks Nation road trip? There’s Anaheim-Los Angeles on Nov. 7-8, the first two stops of a three-game trip that ends in Denver; there are stops in Montreal and Manhattan, on Saturday Nov. 24 and Monday Nov. 26;
– The Canucks have a potential 13 games that could be shown on Hockey Night in Canada, nine at home (including the usual 4 p.m. start time when the Leafs visit on Dec. 15) and four on the road including at Winnipeg on Feb. 9, the Canucks’ return to the Manitoba capital for the first time in 17 years coinciding with Hockey Day In Canada;
– The Stanley Cup champion Kings, who bounced the Canucks in five games from the playoffs this past season, don’t come to town until Feb. 17;
– The Canucks and Flames have back-to-back, home-and-away games, on Dec. 26 at Rogers Arena and Dec. 27 at Calgary.
The full 2012-13 Canucks schedule can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/bpbsu2j